Quotes About Activism

Only if we stand together as one voice, can we ensure that the message is sent and that hate will not be tolerated no matter where it lives in our society.

A lot of people don't realize the toll put on activists. There's a very draining element to it.

Objective thirteen on the Knights of Labor's 1876 platform was "to secure for both sexes equal pay for equal work." Women were seen and heard on the front lines, and were revered by embattled workingmen.

Coined by climate activist Dan Bloom to capture an emergent literary genre dealing with life on Earth after it's been ravaged by climate change, this [cli-fi] is fast becoming the most exciting and challenging subject area driving YA literature.

People who are being punished for doing nothing, for having normative conflict, or for resisting unjustified situations, need the help of other people.

No one with power in America "comes around." They always have to be forced into positive change.

Soixante-huitards, for sure, Frédéric says afterward, meaning they probably threw a few cobblestones in 1968.

It is time to renew the battle for reproductive rights. We have been outmaneuvered, outspent, outpostured, and outvoted by a group of single-issue activists. It has taken them nearly two decades to turn back the principles of Roe. Let's make sure it takes us a shorter time to replace protection for reproductive choice.

But the main thing I learned from the war was that war is unjust, no matter who is pulling the trigger, and that, as my parents taught me, we owe it to each other as human beings to speak out against injustice.

Citizen participation is the animating spirit and force in a society predicated on voluntarism. We

The function of an organizer is to raise questions that agitate, that break through the accepted pattern.

It hurt me to see the American army with drawn bayonets advancing on American boys and girls. But the answer I gave the young radicals seemed to me the only realistic one: "Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing—but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.

They would like to see better housing, health, economic security, but they are not living in the rotten houses; it is not their children who are sick; it is not they who are working with the specter of unemployment hanging over their heads; they are not fighting their own fight.

No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough. As

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

Women have to do all of the catching up. So we are disengaged and overburdened. Sounds like it is time we ditch the complacent fluoride-in-the-tap-water feminism and get reenergized and reinspired.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.